Japan PM Abe to make first visit to Pearl Harbor

AFP ^ | December 4, 2016 | Staff

[C19fan]

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is to become the first Japanese leader to visit Pearl Harbor, announcing Monday a trip to Hawaii this month for talks with US President Barack Obama. "I will visit Pearl Harbor" with Obama, he told reporters in comments broadcast live on television. Abe, who will be in Hawaii on December 26 and 27, will visit the site of the surprise Japanese attack on December 7, 1941, that began World War II in the Pacific.

[C19fan]

Maybe growing up reading about and seeing all the horrors of the 20th century the moral outrage from the US after the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor seems from another time. Everybody knew in the days leading up the Dec 7 war with Japan was not a question of if but when and where. The Japanese started the Russo-Japanese war with a sneak attack on the Russian navy at Port Arthur. The IDF did the same thing destroying the Egyptian Air Force to start the 6 Day War. Good to see some of the last wounds from WW II heal.

[Sacajaweau]

I don’t know what to say.

[Chainmail]

It's probably because I am old, but I am uncomfortable with Obama coming to Pearl Harbor. I mean, I'm OK with the Japanese PM coming - after all, we've had to put up with giggling Japanese tourists at the Arizona Memorial for decades - but Obama?

It's not like he gives a rat's butt or anything.

[Vaquero]

At least it’s not a surprise visit. The last one caused us to eventually nuke them.
Though if I were Abe (Jewish? Lincoln? Yeah I know how it’s pronounced) I’d wait till NEXT December 7. Go with a REAL American president.

[Sacajaweau]

Bet this is all about apologizing to Japan for containing Japanese people during the war. How low will he bow?

I think the WWII Veterans are crying from their graves.

[ealgeone]

Odds on bammy blaming the US for starting the war.

[wardamneagle]

Obamas last free tripTo Hawaii.
Did read the entire article.
Wonder how long he’ll stay?
Through Christmas?

[Sacajaweau]

I’m betting he wants to be home cuddling Hillary when the electors cast their votes. Wonder if he’ll take the stage? Forgot what the intro is for this event.

[tinyowl]

Will Obama apologize to him also for Pearl Harbor? We did after all shoot down a number of their planes.

[T-Bird45]

Neither Abe nor Obama are worthy of placing their sorry asses even in the vicinity of where brave men fought and died. Abe, because his ancestors were the attackers and have never taken responsibility for WW2, and Obama, because...well...because Obama!

[VanDeKoik]

“Abe, because his ancestors were the attackers and have never taken responsibility for WW2”

Then let some WW2 vets make that call.

No one needs some vet’s grandkids or great-grandkids playing the “sins of the father” game.

Thousands of Japanese people have visited Pearl Harbor over the years as a sign of respect.

[mad_as_he$$]

25 years ago Pearl was infested with Japanese tourist of theWW2 era. Most were there to gloat.

[Delmarksman]

“Bet this is all about apologizing to Japan for containing Japanese people during the war. How low will he bow?”

Will he offer Reparations?

[eartick]

It's not like he gives a rat's butt or anything.

You are correct. There is nothing better for Obama to see than Americans dead.

This timely visit is a way to squeeze one more all expense paid vacation for his grifter family out of the taxpayer coffers. That is it. Planned down to the day and time.

The funny thing is, Obama thinks we do not see through his black hide down to his black heart..

[jaydubya2]

Obama will apologize that he’s sorry our battleships dented some of their bombs.

[wally_bert]

Apologies also for carbon footprint the burning ships and buildings caused.

Not to mention the fuel oil that leaked...

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Wife and I visited Pearl five years ago and took the Navy launch out to the Arizona Memorial. We were 2 Americans with about 25 young Japanese.
I asked one young lady (who spoke English) why they were there.
She said it was to see what their grandfathers and fathers had done so many years ago. They had not been told much about it in school.
Credit the kids for wanting to know the truth...

[PghBaldy]

I just remembered- Obama was the first POTUS to visit Hiroshima. He did not literally "apologize," but he implicitly did so. He also did worse, by equating the sneak attack on us, to our responses to the attack...

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Seventy-one years ago, on a bright, cloudless morning, death fell from the sky and the world was changed. A flash of light and a wall of fire destroyed a city and demonstrated that mankind possessed the means to destroy itself.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2016/05/27/remarks-president-obama-and-prime-minister-abe-japan-hiroshima-peace

[Jack Hammer]

‘Japan PM Abe to make first visit to Pearl Harbor.’

Not necessarily. He may have ‘visited’ in a previous life.

[Bigg Red]

Admittedly, I did not go to the full article, but I am guessing that Obama has asked him to come so that Obama can bow to him for all the world to see. Obama will make a speech about how the US had it coming.